It’s okay to be skeptical. That’s why we have evidence. In all of human history, only 24 people have ever flown to the vicinity of the Moon, traveling hundreds of […]
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The era of cheap energy is coming to an end and societies will need to reshape energy consumption and infrastructure or face consequences, warns a new scientific background paper issued to the United Nations.
To raise awareness on one of the biggest environmental challenges of our time, the team partnered up with Adidas and Parley, a campaign group working to stop waste plastic getting into the oceans.
A new study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters provides even more reason to think Ross 128 b, the second closest exoplanet to Earth, could harbor life.
Explore McLuhan’s theory on print culture and its influential hold over civilization.
Amazon could be the next big tech firm to find itself in the eye of a data privacy storm.
Many school districts are switching over to a four day week. Is this a good idea?
A comprehensive energy efficiency infographic that lays out the ways you can make a home energy efficient, from smart window treatments and roofing to walls and doors.
The pressure of getting into a top-tier college seems to have influenced the ways teenagers sort themselves into cliques.
A one-on-one conversation is a valuable opportunity to connect with someone and to benefit from what they have to say. Unfortunately, these chats tend to happen in the middle of […]
These great thinkers remind us that taking an unpopular, bold stance might not be madness.
The Dalai Lama is important, so important that he might decide not to come back after his next death.
It’s just the current cycle that involves opiates, but methamphetamine, cocaine, and others have caused the trajectory of overdoses to head the same direction
Researchers at Japan’s Tohoku University might be clearing the way for space travel.
The Dr. Data Show is a new web series that breaks the mold for data science infotainment, captivating the planet with short webisodes that cover the very best of machine learning and predictive analytics.
“People should be free to walk down the street without being watched by the government.” — ACLU and a coalition of civil rights groups
Drinking home alone in your underwear just might be what you need to be as relaxed as the Finnish.
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that AT&T may purchase Time Warner, without any conditions, arguing that the $85 billion deal doesn’t violate antitrust law.
More and more research points to a serious mistake we made in how biomechanics works.
After speaking with the world’s “top business leaders”, President Donald Trump has asked the SEC to study the potential impacts of removing rules that require companies to file reports with the agency every three months.
The famed author and public intellectual has a bone to pick with the American legal system.
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Einstein’s God is infinitely superior but impersonal and intangible, subtle but not malicious. He is also firmly determinist.
A new report from Bloomberg describes how Chinese subcontractors secretly inserted microchips into servers that wound up in data centers used by nearly 30 American companies.
The American Psychological Association recently released guidelines for treating boys and men. Men aren’t happy about it.
The ices and rock aren’t green, and neither are the tails. So where does a comet’s green color come from? Every so often, with extreme regularity, comets will plunge from beyond […]
It’s tempting to think of the mind as a layer that sits on top of more primitive cognitive structures. We experience ourselves as conscious beings, after all, in a way […]
The Big Think+ team is thrilled to present 20 brand new videos! How does an astronaut bridge cultural divide? This month, take new perspectives on the interesting world we work […]
If spacetime is like a fabric, and mass bends it, what flattens it back out again? Matter tells space how to curve, and curved space tells matter how to move. That’s […]